Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College, Fellow of ACL, Fellow of ELLIS, elected member of Academia Europaea, Chair elect of EACL, previously a Turing Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.
Research Experience
Current position: Professor of Natural Language Processing at the University of Cambridge; Previously: Royal Society University Research Fellow, JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.
Education
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge; Master's degrees in both Computer Science and Linguistics.
Background
Professor of Natural Language Processing at the University of Cambridge, co-director of the Language Technology Laboratory (LTL), director of the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), and co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity. Research focuses on NLP and other areas of AI, specifically on developing, adapting, and applying computational techniques to meet the needs of intelligent applications. Particular interest in responsible, human-centric technologies that are informed by an understanding of human cognitive, social, and creative intelligence, with a focus on applications that promote social and global good.
Miscellany
Welcomes applications from outstanding candidates for PhD in Computation, Cognition and Language, and PhD in Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. Also supervises PhD students as part of the European ELLIS PhD program.